mantis question?!

yeah. thats what he told me. i had never seen one like her before till i went into there. what kind of mantis is on the main page of stomatopod.com? that pink one?

 

i am thinking odontodactylus havanensis, but it is hard to tell with color enhanced pictures such as this one

 

yeah that would be so amazing if there was one actually just like it!

 

seriously! i might get a spearer here in the future i think that would be cool. i actually have trained my wenerrae to eat from my hand! check this out

YouTube - Hand feeding Mantis Shrimp

you can see him do his back flip at the beginning

 

thats amazing! how long did it take you to train him?

 

sitting by his tank most of the day for a month did the trick. im going to try and hold him soon

my dream mantis tank would be a 90 long divided up into 4 mantis tanks with pvc jungle for each. included would be a Tetrasquilla mccullochae, my favorite mantis. hes a spearer and youre more likely to find a moon rock than one of these amazing mantises. hes pure white. so cool.

 

sitting by his tank most of the day for a month did the trick. im going to try and hold him soon

my dream mantis tank would be a 90 long divided up into 4 mantis tanks with pvc jungle for each. included would be a Tetrasquilla mccullochae, my favorite mantis. hes a spearer and youre more likely to find a moon rock than one of these amazing mantises. hes pure white. so cool.

 

The only "pet" mantis that would ever have a chance of breaking glass is a fully grown Peacock. I'm talking around 7+ inches long. There are bigger ones than a peacock that could break glass, but they aren't exactly a mantis people want to keep as pets.

Anyways I'd feel perfectly safe with 3/8" glass or 1/4" acrylic with a fully grown peacock. All you'd really need to do is put down a layer of extra acrylic on the bottom so the mantis doesn't stand a chance of breaking the bottom when in "digging mode". We've got a 3.5" G. Smithii in a 14 Biocube and he doesn't even stand a chance of breaking that sucker.

 

that would be so cool! i love mantis shrimp!!!

 

I used to get mixed crabs sold as octopus food at ccritters.com for $.30/crab but I just checked and they are up to $1.00/crab. Lame. At that price I will get live shrimp fishing bait, its like $2.99 for a dozen. I think my mantis would really enjoy eating a shrimp... I may try that. He loves to chase (and eat) tiny feeder ghost shrimp.

If you have a good relationship with a local fish store ask them for all their bad crabs.